BOLTON'S FA CUP tie with Tottenham has been ababdoned after Trotters midfielder Fabrice Muamba suffered a suspected cardiac arrest during the game.

The player received CPR on the pitch after collapsing while the game was in action.

Reporters are the scene said Muamba was resuscitated for 10 minutes while lying on the pitch before being stretchered off.

He has been taken to hospital.

ESPN, which was covering the game as a live commentary, reported that a defibrillator was used in the tunnel and one reporter said he wasn't breathing as he went past him.

Radio Five Live commentator and former Spurs manager David Pleat, who was at the game, said: "The player just went down, there was no-one near him. Straight away everyone knew there was something seriously wrong."

Referee Howard Webb sent the players from the field before abandoning the game, which was level at 1-1, after speaking with both sets of managers.